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He invited her in for a Martini and she graciously accepted.
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148164
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You left paint and blood smeared on the wall.
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148175
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I'm hearing a noise. I can't see it. It's hiding and seems to be coming from the other side of the creek. With boots on I slowly wade across. The water makes its light lapping sounds. Reaching the bank, I search for the noise. It must have a face, suntanned and warm, that I…
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148123
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Me sad because of results set forth in my life story.
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148161
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It was the dead of winter. I took my father's shotgun from his closet. He kept it wrapped up in one of those khaki-colored gun tote bags that had a zipper running the whole length of the gun. It was a 16-gauge, single action shotgun. Anyone could tell wha
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148154
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I am i said pursued by the feeling of being watched.You are she said -- by yourself. As in a dream, a dream you know you're dreaming. Which changes nothing.We are she said watching from the mezzanine, half-above, at once a part and apart.
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1480119
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The summer I turned fourteen I had a job babysitting our neighbor, Pam's three year old daughter, Annie, three nights a week while Pam was going to Junior College, but it was hardly work because, after I tucked Annie in to sleep, I just watched TV, sitting in Pam's den…
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148096
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They make you work
For your pizza in Italy
You have to slice it yourself
While wearing a gas mask
To ward off the cigarette smoke
From every neighboring table
While chasing away the
Mosquitos and the pigeons
The flies and the gypsy r
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1480107
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This time the mountain climber does not attain the summit.
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148000
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“We are NOT starving!” I stated emphatically. “What ever gave you the idea that you are starving? Honestly, Annie, you are so melodramatic. You have food in front of you right now, don’t you?’ I said pointing to her plate of potatoes and so
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148032
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...he was suddenly and hazily relieved that he had something in Persepolis and blue agave plants to talk to her about.
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148032
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I asked him his name and here’s the kicker, Leiby. It means lion.
You know what? I said mine is Levi, how do you do.
That means to accompany—like in the root of the word, it’s got that meaning.
As in levayah, funeral in Hebrew. Does that only
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148086
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There are stranded people just like us, that's Not necessarily what I'm looking for. Negativity won't pull us through the Barbed-wire halls of hate. And even if I Was the only one, I wouldn't want you To look any different in the mirror. I'm older …
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148030
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Maybe it might be best to, you know, have less frequent meetings.
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148023
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my crotch-heavy press of 'Yes.'
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148043
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" History ...is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."
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148041
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Miracles don’t happen to the poor.
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148000
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Early in the morning
I wanted to send you something
for when you wake;
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148096
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my love for you/ is like the falling snow
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148040
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One could count fifty moons hanging in the sky, in rows and columns of smaller skies.
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14801012
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All the things that are his.
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148051
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A dead deer on the side of the road and the older boys not listening to her as they stab its eye with a stick.
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148000
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She can still be normal, says Momma, knowing my sister can’t hear, forgetting I can.
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148045
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Today I’m feeling crabby and haggard and technology makes it easy to get to the point.
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148032
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Kerryn saved us from ourselves really. Would you be reading this had she eaten it?
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148077
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She tossed the big bird into the air. It wobbled, then flew away.
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147952
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Not to...Witness such sufferingWatch as a life fades awayReceive the callAttend this funeralBe surrounded by well meaning family and friendsStand by helplessly as my father sobs in his brother's armsNotice the pain settle in my brother's eyesSee my grandparents' tortured,…
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147932
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We were talking in the dark in my room. He lay on a mattress on the floor. He came for a sleepover.
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1479199
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One moustache hair at moustache level on a filmy bathroom mirror. A red velvet spread on a big round bed. Dear Ma: We saw a bearded lady.
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1479158
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Maybe it takes as much fortitude
To forget
As it does
To remember.
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